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Daily Review 21/02/2018
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Democratic burn
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It’s Our Future: Complete U-Turn by Labour and NZ First on TPP
Press release via Scoop: __________________________________________________________________ Monday, 19 February 2018, 9:50 am The government are planning to sign the re-branded Trans Pacific Partnership in Chile on March 8th. Then they will begin the ratification process. The TPP might have been re-branded as the CPTPP but it's…
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Hager posts Dirty Politics chapter on Mark Mitchell on web
As a service to the body politic Nicky Hager and the publishers of Dirty Politics have made the chapter of Dirty Politics that deals with Mark Mitchell freely available on the web. It is available here. Hager obviously thinks that it is important for the…
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Open Mike 21/02/2018
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Tax Haven Man in Town
The Lord Mayor of the City of London is visiting New Zealand. Its not Sadiq Khan; Charles Bowman is a PwC partner leading London's financial centre lobby. He's here to talk to business and regulators. He'll no doubt be talking up more deregulation. "Trust Us',…
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Daily Review 20/02/2018
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Poll Watch: Colmar Brunton Poll 2018-2-19
Kia ora koutou and welcome to the second edition of Pollwatch, where I, your host, copy polling into spreadsheets and analyse what its margins of error mean so that you don't have to, and try to share some dispassionate and hopefully objective analysis on trends.…
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The battle of the five political midgets
Two further candidates for National's leadership have been announced. Yesterday Mark Mitchell said he wanted the top job. He botched the announcement though and showed some difficulty counting to two. For his sake I hope it is not reflective of his current support. https://twitter.com/jo_moir/status/965400946523086849 He…
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Us and them – what will Labour do about WINZ?
The Standard author Bill has said in the past that you can tell a lot about a political party by how it uses language especially in regards to us and them (when parties talk about themselves as separate from the rest of us). I was…
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Open Mike 20/02/2018
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Daily Review 19/02/2018
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The strange case of the Judith Collins support website
The leadership campaign for National is getting strange. A support website for Judith Collins has spontaneously appeared. And it is registered to what looks like a false identity but Collins' Parliamentary office has been provided as a contact address for the site owner. From Stuff:…
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US kids fight back: you are either with us or against us
https://twitter.com/ycancela/status/964933983866892289 Every single person up here today, all these people should be home grieving. But instead we are up here standing together because if all our government and President can do is send thoughts and prayers, then it's time for victims to be the change…
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Mueller v Russia
I get the feeling the Robert Mueller investigation is reaching a critical stage. Last week there was news that Rick Gates, former business partner of George Papadopoulos had changed tack and was cooperating fully with the Mueller investigation. From Salon: Rick Gates, a former top aide to…
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Open Mike 19/02/2018
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Strong and decisive
Judith Collins appears to be fighting a hopeless battle. Clearly the battle for National's leadership is between Adams and Bridges. And perhaps Collins is battling for relevance and her future. With a field of at least three and a preferential voting system her endorsement would…
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ALRANZ: 16 reasons to change the abortion law
Prior to the election in 2014 the Abortion Law Reform Association of New Zealand published 16 reasons why NZ should change its abortion laws. See yesterday's post for Justice Minister Andrew Little's announcement to do just that. ALRANZ's outline of our current laws: In New Zealand, abortion…
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Open Mike 18/02/2018
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Seymour is dancing with the stars
What is it with ACT politicians and the dancing with the stars programme. Don't they have enough to do like carry the hopes and aspirations of the right wing in Parliament and attack beneficiaries and sell off stuff? But ACT politicians are creating an unfortunate…
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Labour to reform abortion law
https://twitter.com/CrikaRika/status/964324543476068353 Newsroom reported yesterday: Andrew Little surprised observers today when he revealed that a draft referral on reforming New Zealand's abortion law had been circulated to New Zealand First and the Greens. Little said today that he received a letter from Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern…
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Dunedin City Council votes for carbon neutral target
https://twitter.com/_chloeswarbrick/status/963871033475256320 From Thursday's Otago Daily Times: At a meeting of the Dunedin City Council's planning and environment committee this week, councillors voted to adopt a target of a 100% reduction in net carbon emissions by 2050, excluding methane for now. The adoption of the target meant…
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Open Mike 17/02/2018
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Beetrooted
New Zealander of the year finalist Barnaby Joyce is in a very tenuous position. It looks like his future as deputy prime minister is in doubt. The genesis of his problems is an intimate relationship he conducted with his former press secretary which has recently…
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TPPA-11 update and actions
This is an update on the TPPA-11 written by Jane Kelsey at It's Our Future as part of a longer piece on the the TPPA and Te Tiriti O Waitangi. _________________________________________________________ The state of play with TPPA The original Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement was signed by…
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Open Mike 16/02/2018
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Daily Review 15/02/2018
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An in Vogue Prime Minister
There's an article and photo shoot of Jacinda Ardern in the latest (US) Vogue, and various commentary is starting to be made. The Vogue article is online. Myself, I don’t have a problem with this, or the whole Women’s Weekly thing. I want a PM who…
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Hey Stuart Nash Maui’s Dolphins are approaching extinction
Christine Rose posted in November 2017 her concerns about Minister of Fisheries Stuart Nash wanting to delay the roll out of cameras on fishing boats to monitor what they were catching. She described the background in the following terms: Maui and Hector’s dolphins, found only…
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Global Sharemarkets
U.S. stockmarkets have been highly volatile over the last two weeks. Nothing like a good scare on the global share markets to make people wonder if their money is safe. The volatility has induced all sorts of unhelpful histrionics about the end of capitalism, and…
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